Political Quotes

“we are in the midst of the Trump shutdown, aptly named for him because he is the one--perhaps the only one in America--who thinks it is a good shutdown. In fact, his head of Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, gloated that it was ``kind of cool'' that he was the one who got to shut down the government. ``Kind of cool,'' he said on Friday in a radio interview. As I speak tonight, all Americans know there is no such thing as a good shutdown. All of us in this body strongly believe that we must end this shutdown. We mark the first-year anniversary of the Trump Presidency with the Trump shutdown and his now infamously saying on May 2 that our country needs a ``good shutdown.'' But this shutdown has damaging, even potentially devastating effects on millions of Americans--our troops whose pay will be delayed, our families who rely on the Children's Health Insurance Program and who will soon be without funding, community health center patients whose source of healthcare will be closed, government workers who keep our Nation running every day, the disaster relief victims in Puerto Rico who will be denied relief, along with their fellow Americans in Texas and Florida.…”